Wrestling with the left
Subtitle: the making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
By: Barbara Foley.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780822348177; 9780822348290
Subjects: Ellison, Ralph; Ellison, Ralph -- Political and social views
Description: In this book, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of "Invisible Man". In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison's novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the early years of the cold war. Foley suggests that by expunging a leftist vision from "Invisible Man", Ellison rendered his novel not only less radical but also less humane than it might otherwise have been.--[book cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reading forward to Invisible man; title: Forming a politics; title: Developing an aesthetic; title: Writing from the left; title: Living Jim Crow; title: Becoming proletarian; title: Finding brotherhood; title: Recognizing necessity; title: Beginning and ending.